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Show 35 Some states,--including Utah,-- visions for souroes Dr. Paul no special pro of funds. Regarding present activity lation, make Popenoe in sterilization legis writes:16 "So far as I can recall, the only state law whioh has been held invalid in reoent years had This was on pure been that of North Carolina. ly technical grounds, and the law was at once redrawn to meet the objection and is now before Of course the North Carolina Legislature again. this is very difficult session in which to get attention for anything exoept the highly mpor tant problems of revenue and expenditure, but if that difficulty can be surmounted the state of North Carolina will not be long without a sterilization law. "Bills for sterilization have been introduced legislatures in Hawaii ,Florida, I and Wyoming. T.hat in /Vyoming was defeated. believe the bill in Ohio was also defeated.ff in the ourrent sessions of the Ohio, IvIissouri, Pennsylvania, 17 And later: ttThe bills pending in Missouri and Pennsyl in committee. The were allowed to die same thing happened to the bill for a revision of the California statutes. The Hawaiian bill passed the lower house, but was either defeat The bill in ed or smothered in. the Senate. North Carolina a Florida is still pending.* dopted a new law though we have not a copy of it. South Carolina considered a law, but was defeated. A bill in Georgia, was I think,never brought out of committee." *"Author just wribes that it is doomed." vania (Handwritten footnote.) 16. Ibid. 17. Letter dated May 18, 1933. |
